Re: Concerning marks and the back end.

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> Like I said originally, I'd like to be able to put a special mark
>> (managed through the .marks file, not the back end) on my articles, such
>> that all of those already read articles that have this special mark are
>> NOT seen; and such that all of those already read articles WITHOUT that
>> special mark are still visible.
>
> You could tick the articles you want to see, and mark as read those
> you don't want to see.

Did you try this before suggesting it?

A tick mark doesn't help.  If you've been following this thread, you'll
know that I'm talking about the case where I enter a group with no
unread articles.  All the ticked and non-ticked articles show up when I
enter a group with no unread articles.


> You could also mark as dormant the articles you want to see.  Then `Y
> d' will show the dormant articles.

Thanks.  Soon I'll be off to investigate dormant-izing the articles.
I'll report back a little later.


> You can frob gnus-select-article-hook and/or gnus-mark-article-hook
> to put marks other than `read' onto articles that you read.

Would those marks get stored in the back end, or in the .marks file?
If they're stored in the back end, I don't know that they would
help me.


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